I've made my choice

I'm going to win!

I have decided to go over to the dark side.

Sometimes when I hear bad news, I find myself becoming upset. I have to deal with difficult emotions, like sadness, anger, and fear. These emotions make me feel bad, and I don’t like that.

So I’m going to fix it.

I want power! I want the world to reflect back to me a perfect image of myself: happy, confident, and free.

Fortunately, this is possible because I have a Human Mind. The Human Mind is the most powerful and important thing in the Universe! As a possessor of a Human Mind, I am different than all other creatures on Earth. Different and better!

My Human Mind allows me to make distinctions that other beings cannot make. I know what is good and what is evil. I know what is useful and what is useless. Without those distinctions, the world of Nature is just a mess of dirt and air and water. But with my Human Mind, I can discover the laws of Nature, impose order on the mess, and create the world that I want!

Like the Moon. The Moon used to be a Goddess, but then we landed on it and it became just a hunk of rock. We grasped the Moon with the power of the Human Mind! If we grasp something, how can it be a Goddess? It can’t! So when I grasp the entire Universe with my Human Mind, it is just a thing and no longer holy. That’s the work of Humans: to grasp the Universe and turn it into things that are not holy.

And that’s not all! I can expand the power of my Human Mind with Artificial Intelligence! With Artificial Intelligence, I can perfectly describe and predict how the world will behave, now and forever. I can hold eternity in my hand and determine the destiny of everything. There’s no need for things to actually “happen” because I can predict them perfectly with my Human Mind amplified by Artificial Intelligence. I can make the entire history of the Universe a “thing” that I can grasp and manipulate. Talk about power!

And what’s truly great about power is that I can do anything I want and nobody can tell me if it’s right or wrong. I am the only judge. If the Universe is just a thing, and I am in control, then who is there to tell me I’m wrong? Nobody, that’s who!

So I will remake the world in my image so that it reflects what I want myself to be. I will be the most important and powerful person in the Universe. I will destroy everything that does not reflect myself as a perfect person: happy, confident, and free. I will never have to feel sadness, anger, or fear.

Will some people suffer? Maybe. But are they really people? If they do not have power, like I do, then can you really say that they are people? They’re more like animals, who have no power. We control all the animals, so why shouldn’t we control the people who are like animals? So actually people do not suffer. Because only people who do not suffer are actually people.

I mean, look around! Who is winning? I am winning! The people with power are winning. And winning means you are doing things right, yes? If you weren’t doing things right you wouldn’t be winning, you’d be losing. You’d be in a torture prison in El Salvador, which is where you belong if you’re not winning. Everyone who isn’t winning should be losing, and should be banished to realms of suffering from which there is no return. This is fundamental!

That’s why I want power, so I can win and not be a loser and not be sent off to places of torture and suffering. I don’t belong there, I belong here, where I am winning, where I am a Human Being in charge of everything because of the power of my Human Mind, which is the most important thing in the Universe.

So you can see why I’ve made this choice. It has all the benefits and none of the downside. I get all the power and I don’t have to suffer! When all the losers are in a torture prison in El Salvador, my life will be perfect because there will be no one to tell me that what I’m doing is wrong.

I will win, and I will be free!

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